Extracting image file from zip archive into a variable??

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi James,

If setting the text or putting the data into an image object doesn't work, then the data is corrupt. What happens if you write the variable to a file and try to open it with an image editor?

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On 28 jun 2012, at 18:05, James Hale wrote:

> I am extracting files from a zip archive directly into variables.
> Some of the files may be jpeg image files.
> How can I display these image files from the respective variables?
> 
> Here is what I have tried.
> I created an image object on my card and then tried to get it to display the image that was extracted to the variable.
> Putting the variable into the image object doesn't seem to work.
> Setting the imagedata of the image object to the variable didn't work.
> Setting the text of the image object to the variable didn't work.
> 
> Am I wasting my time here in thinking the variable contains data I can use?
> Should I be extracting the image file from the archive to a file first and then import it (or URL a bin file of it).
> 
> I wanted to avoid having to write a file and then read it in and then delete it, if possible
> 
> James